ABSTRACT
There were many reasons why the United States suppressed publication in Japan of material about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An often-stated reason for suppression was that the material gave the impression that the United States was inhumane or barbaric in using the atomic bomb. As for Japanese atomic bomb material, the possibility that it might contain something detrimental to the security of the United States often lead to protracted checking between different agencies, both within scap and within departments and agencies in the United States. On August 11, 1945, in a dispatch through the Swiss Embassy, which represented Japan, the Japanese government formally protested against the atomic bombings and declared them a crime against international law. The Japanese researcher Yukuo Sasamoto accuses both the Japanese and the Americans of using the atomic bombings in an information and propaganda war.
